Balanced Assessment Workshop

Tampa, Florida

Understand why educators need to balance formative and summative assessments correlated to the “language of the standards” (LOTS). Dr. Burke explores the essential efforts that will improve learning and prepare students for high-stakes standardized tests. Learn how to create common assessments such as motivating performance tasks. Gain strategies for designing formative assessments like checklists, rubrics, and metacognitive strategies to improve learning by using feedback, scaffolding, and differentiation. Work in teams to develop a summative assessment process to evaluate student work and prove students have met or exceeded standards at the end of the learning segment.

Plan to attend as a team and bring hard copies of your state standards, curriculum resources, student data, and any other resources relevant to the design process. A team laptop will be helpful to use the templates provided.

You will:

• Analyze data and target power standards by “repacking” them into teacher checklists.
• Recognize the difference between a standards-referenced classroom and a standards-embedded classroom.
• Use the language of the standards (LOTS) to develop curriculum, instructional strategies, and assessments.
• Understand the differences and similarities between formative and summative assessment.
• Discover how to create relevant performance tasks that integrate multiple standards, differentiate assessments, and motivate students.
• Learn how to create user-friendly student checklists to “chunk” standards and scaffold content.
• Discover how to convert student checklists to analytical rubrics.
• Learn how to use informal formative assessments, such as logs, journals, and graphic organizers.
• Develop valid summative assessments to prove what students have learned.